My prepping strategy is to form a raider gang and take the supplies of all you suckers.

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Preparedness in the event of an emergency situation is a virtue, and everyone should at least have a small emergency kit they can readily access and, if they can't get training, at least get some manuals on trap setting, household repairs, food preservation techniques, and other things. You'd also do well to go over guidelines on what to do and where to seek shelter in the event of natural disasters or events like shootings, terrorist attacks, and invasions. It's like learning to swim. Sure, you may never need to, but you'll appreciate the hell out of preparing anyway if something unexpectedly comes up.

With that said, as Sasu has indicated: not everyone really can assemble a kit, and that's why it's a really good idea for preparation for disasters and such to be a community effort and for individuals to plan to have not only enough food, supplies, and so on for themselves but also a bit to use for charity or trade.

Maintaining a buffer of essentials will pay off. It isn't a matter of if, but when. Knowing that you're not going to starve or dehydrate takes the pressure off of a sudden loss of income, or even housing.

I don't store food or anything like that. However I always have one full magazine for my Springfield 1911 .45 handgun. My dad always said it's a good thing to have one full, even if you never, ever put that magazine into the gun.

I already have my fair share of firearms and more then enough ammo to keep me going for a fairly long time if hunting and limited self defence is my only concerns regarding ammo expenditure. I live in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, rainfall is plentiful enough and naturally occurring sources of drinkable water are widely available. And I currently have six months worth of IMPs , that's MRE to you Yanks. They all contain a heating pack and last up to two years. And can be consumed cold if need be, the bread they come with taste..passable.

More to the point three IMPs provide 3400 calories more then enough to keep ya going. And on the plus side each IMP comes with enough matches to start a fire,especially since the towelette is soaked in alcohol.

But honestly all the supplies in the world isn't going to help the vast majority of you. Most of you are soft with no survival or combat training. That kind of training is more important then all the food and weapons ya keep squirrelled away.

For the idiots that don't know we are currently UNDER wartime conditions:

—Under Obama, the United States has been at war for 2,687 days. That's longer than under George W. Bush — or any other U.S. president, for that matter. —Obama has conducted airstrikes on seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
May 30, 2016

For the idiots that don't know we are currently UNDER wartime conditions:

—Under Obama, the United States has been at war for 2,687 days. That's longer than under George W. Bush — or any other U.S. president, for that matter. —Obama has conducted airstrikes on seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
May 30, 2016

According to the internet, the United States has been at war almost continuously for 222-236 of 239 years. If you accept that as true, then not being under 'wartime conditions' is more unusual. So our beloved four term President, Franky D., would still hold the record for wartime conditions length.